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Tn . The problem is to show that for these positive ti (1 − λ + λti ) ≥ λ ti . This inequality is the special case of the Brunn–Minkowski inequality in which the set A is a unit cube and the set B is a cuboid with sides t1 , . . , tn , aligned in the same way as the cube. It is immediate because the arithmetic/geometric mean inequality shows that for each i (1 − λ) + λti ≥ tλi . As long ago as 1957, Knothe [K] gave a proof of the Brunn–Minkowski inequality which involved a kind of mass transportation.

A simple transport problem The problem is to ﬁnd a partition of R2 into sets A and B with µ(A) = µ(B) = 1/2 so as to minimise the cost of transporting A to (−1, 0) and B to (1, 0): x − (−1, 0) A 2 x − (1, 0) dµ + 2 dµ. B I claim that the best thing to do is to divide the measure µ using a line in the direction (0, 1), as shown in Figure 1. To establish the claim, we need to check that given two points (a, u) and (b, v) with a < b, it is better to move the leftmost point to (−1, 0) and the rightmost point to (1, 0), than it is to swap the order.